No comments about Residential Open Building.

1 comments about 3D Manufacturing Innovation: Revolutionary Change in Japanese Manufacturing with Digital Data.

1. Good book with good case studies.
   We implement RTT software and this provides some ideas.

No comments about Islamic Designs (Agile Rabbit Editions).

No comments about Early Victorian House Designs.

2 comments about The SPICE Book.

1. This book incloses most of the mathematical equations of the models used by SPICE and helps good by solving problems with the convergence, written by one of the designer of SPICE A. Vladimirescu



2. This book has just about everthing you want to know about spice from it's history in early 60's, to solving convergance in array of circuits,which are difficult to simulate.I found the book to be useful for it's tables to construct better and more models than I had ever imagined possible.The author does use alot of mathematical expressions to explain the spice syntax, but the format is great, and well thought out.This book is the "toolbox" for spice. Others fall short, but this book I'm gald to have on my shelf.

1 comments about Tai Soo Kim Partners: Selected Works (The Master Architect Series, 4).

1. Tai Soo Kim's work is wonderfully illustrated in this comprhensive overview of his firm's work. I would advise anyone interested in contemporary public Architecture to take a look at this publication - it's well-worth the purchase. Of the work shown, I'd say I most prefer the home of Tai Soo Kim, to me a modest yet sensitve design that clearly illustrates the enfluences of his previous employer Phillip Johnson, as well as Mies. - A good book...

5 comments about SCADA: Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition.

1. Info: I read the 3rd edition what was published in 2004.
   
   General: The book is easy to read and does not keep repeating itself. The chapters are ordered in a way that seems logical.
   
   Bookcontent:
   70% of the book has nothing to do with SCADA but is informing you on ways of communicating, which can be used for SCADA. This part was written in a time that a 1200 baud modem was state of the art equipment AND THAT WAS NOT 2004! The rest of the book gives you a global idea what the difference is between RTU's and MTU's and what they can do. Based on the fact that the communication part is completely outdated this will be as well. It did not give me any additional information on what I already new.



2. This book is NOT suited for electrical engineers who want to learn SCADA. It is, however, adequate for business men or managers who would like to acquire a general (very general indeed)understanding of SCADA terminology. Themes within the book are treated superficially sometimes, with a greater depth in others (such as when addressing protocols) that is not consistent nor coherent. I do not recommend this book for a Power Systems Engineer, student of such systems, or any electric or electronic engineer that wishes to understand SCADA.



3. For training technicians, this book provides an excellent introduction to how SCADA systems work. Most of the more detailed system information requires training and manuals from specific vendors who usually provide good information on their products but little in the way of a system-wide view.



4. I found this book to contain mostly dated, simplistic information and believe it to be unsuitable for an engineer. It will NOT advance the expertise of anyone with even minor expertise in this field. I'm stunned that it has ISA backing and is a second edition. Don't waste your time on this book unless you need only a casual, conceptual understanding of this subject.



5. I had to prepared an introduction course on SCADA system. This book by himself is a complete course. I had no trouble to find information and build a 3 days course to engineer learner. They were very satisfy with the contents of this book. Thank you for your sugestion to purchase it.

1 comments about Mechanical Engineering Design with Pro/ENGINEER Release 2000i-2.

1. This book is a "cook book" style tutorial. Archibald does a great job of at least mentioning most of the commands that are available through Pro-E, however he only uses some of the commands that he mentions, and explains even fewer of them.

1 comments about Design of Automatic Machinery (Mechanical Engineering (Marcell Dekker)).

1. The book covers many interesting topics, but rather superficially. It tells you about the various aspects related to design of automatic machinery, but not enough about anything so that you can actually apply it in designing machinery. Even the case studies do not get to technical details and are mainly descriptive.
   
   So, if you just want to know the names of the various aspects of automation and a description of what the names mean, this book is fine. If you actually want to design something, it is disappointing.

No comments about Engineering Drawing with CAD Applications.